black-ish's Never-Before-Seen Shelved Episode Is Now on Hulu

Dino-Ray Ramos, Amanda N'Duka After taking a brief hiatus, Deadline’s New Hollywood Podcast is back, and what better way to return than with Black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross?Ross has played Rainbow (aka Bow), the matriarch of the Johnson family on Black-ish for six seasons — and an upcoming seventh. The role has earned her four Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series — and that includes this year.

Laurence Fishburne has appeared in everything from John Singleton’s to the film franchise. He earned an Oscar nomination for and won two Emmys, for performances in and.

Pharrell Williams has curated a special edition of Time magazine and announced a new song with Jay-Z.

Tracee Ellis Ross had one major request for her character on .

Tracee Ellis Ross does not believe her character Rainbow Johnson should carry a laundry basket or cook in every “Black-ish” scene.

Kenya Barris talked about the infamously shelved episode of “Black-ish” on “The Daily Show” with Trevor Noah this week.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorBlack-ish creator Kenya Barris joined Trevor Noah on The Daily Show Thursday night where he talked about the decision to shelve a highly political episode of the praised series, and what led to its recent resurrection.

The Black-ish episode that no one has ever seen before will finally make its debut on Hulu.

Black-Ish that was shelved by ABC executives over “creative differences” is now available to view on Hulu.The episode, Please, Baby, Please, had been set to air in February 2018, but never ultimately made it to screens.

Black-ish that was notoriously shelved has finally been released.The episode, entitled Please, Baby, Please, was mysteriously removed from the show’s new season, leading to a confrontation in which the show’s creator Kenya Barris left his long-term relationship with Disney.As The Hollywood Reporter states, the episode sees Dre Johnson (played by Anthony Anderson) telling his infant son a bedtime story, which was part-fairytale and part-real, discussing Donald Trump‘s presidency, the

Kenya Barris revealed that part of his reasoning for signing a whopper development deal with Netflix was his frustration over ABC shelving a Season 4 episode of black-ish, intrigue around the lost episode that was pulled from the schedule days before it was set to air in Feb. 2018 grew exponentially.

LOS ANGELES -- A politically charged episode of “black-ish” from 2017 that was shelved by ABC has found a home on Hulu, a corporate sibling of the Disney-owned broadcast network. “I cannot wait for everyone to finally see the episode for themselves,” series creator Kenya Barris posted Monday on social media.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticThe most surefire way to make people interested in a product is to ban it from circulation. ABC found this out the hard way in 2018 when it pulled an episode of “Black-ish” (“Please, Baby, Please”) from its schedule less than a week before it was due to air, which all but guaranteed that it would become the stuff of TV industry legend.

politics-themed episode that was shelved by ABC in February 2018 is now airing on Hulu, series creator Kenya Barris announced Monday. The episode, titled «Please, Baby, Please,» is named after the 2006 children's book written by director Spike Lee and his wife, producer Tonya Lewis Lee.The episode features Dre (Anthony Anderson) reading the book to his son Devante, and deals with institutional discrimination in America, discussing, among other things, President Donald Trump and NFL players

reported exclusively by Variety, to “creative differences” with Barris and the producers that they “were unable to resolve.”Barris used the same “creative differences” term, however, the argument over the episode was allegedly a significant factor behind his departure for a mega overall deal at Netflix later that same year.Directed by Barris, the episode features Anthony Anderson’s patriarch Dre caring for his infant son on the night of an intense thunderstorm that keeps the whole household